skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has certainly been an interesting act of an interesting drama, with unsavory players on either side. Not mentioned in this article are purported acts of blackmail which led to the initial closure of /r/CreepShots, which is what I've been most interested in so far as that seems like the most likely part of this drama to result in some sort of legal action.
Your posts would be a very good recent example.
IANAL, but it seems that you could extend this finding to argue that music and video files could be copied freely as long as they are in the cloud.
This almost works, but the caller will not know when foobar() has deleted the list head, and you update prev_link to the current_node even if you have deleted that node

Did you mean:

void foobar(Node **prev_link)
{
Node *current_node;

while((current_node = *prev_link) != NULL) {
/* ...do something... */
if (must_remove(current_node)) {
*prev_link = current_node->next;
free(current_node);
} else {
prev_link = &(current_node->next);
}
}
}
Show HN: Docverter: convert plaintext to PDF, Docx, or ePub. Now in open beta.
In pure javascript, uses HTML5/WebGL runs almost every game.
Video of a development version from before I released it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjCuM6pnI54
Hey, thanks for the kind words - I appreciate it. I think you're going to have a 10x better chance of finding a great technical cofounder because you took the time to prove the concept and build your technical skills. Not only will you have something in production (not just an idea or a lean canvas) but you'll have so much empathy for your cofounder. You'll appreciate what they go through in a way non technical cofounders can't do (or take a long time to learn).

What's your startup?
Nothing prevents genocide quite like a good mobile app #slacktivism
Most (all?) current Kindle models have the option of wifi-only or wifi + 3G.
In under 3 weeks, iPhone 5 overtakes Galaxy S III in mobile web traffic
مظاهرات اليوم الجمعة 12 اكتوبر 2012 بالفيديو والصور يوتيوب
Step 1: don't give your email address to some random website
Where "worst" is defined by a function of pH and sugar content pulled out of the air by a dentist.
Zappa has been one of my favorite American thinkers (and musicians) for years. He and Hunter S. Thompson are both dead now, so what do they have left?
Nice article. I'm still excited about getting my first beta of Pixate (http://www.pixate.com/). I saw that kickstarter project here and bought in, twice (they had lowered the goal). Then we'll have a new way of customizing iOS controls. I did get the shirt, but I'd really the the beta. It should be coming any day now.
Nothing works against motivated spammers. For high value sites, they pay real humans to operate real browsers to post spam comments on your site.
Interesting! It reminds me a little bit of a lava lamp.
I agree for the most part. The motivations and ethos of startups and agencies / dev shops / et al. are not aligned. Thus you have a huge potential for failure, which I have experienced first hand as an entrepreneur and seen repeated numerous times as an investor.
Regarding the movie -- to show the 3rd level just as well, camera should pan out to include the programmer ;-)
I started out with FBSD, moved on to OBSD, then Solaris 10. Finally got onto using RHEL and about the only thing I really miss from the BSD days are the man pages. The BSD teams really had excellent man pages compared to the Linux world. It's not as big a deal now with so much more info on the web, but concise, precise man pages are a really nice feature to have.
Media burnout
Please write more :)

I'm writing #5 right now. Publication due in mid-2014.
An OpenStack Cloud in the Parking Lot
Failed theory to remember in discussions concerning evolution
Tencent: WeChat App Has Gone Global, Now a Growing Ratio of Worldwide Users
You'd be surprised how many people I met in America that use TD Bank yet don't know that it's from Canada (Toronto Dominion).
Any similar tutorial/article for styling UITableView? Always struggled with custom cells (specially grouped cells)
"I want to be everywhere, with everyone, all the time. This is a sentiment of the Internet era."
Thanks (to both of you) for the replies.

We're really not just blowing smoke here.

I'm not claiming you are. On the contrary, I agree your argument, under the right conditions. However, I am concerned that you are generalising way, way too much and you're setting up a lot of naive but entrepreneurial young developers for a nasty reality check.

Here in the UK, the vast majority of freelance/contract work isn't the kind of lucrative consultancy gig that various HN regulars seem to be arguing everyone should move towards. Obviously there is a significant amount of high-end consultancy work around, but mostly the freelance market is more about having a flexible workforce, where local businesses can bring in extra resources on demand without the overheads of full employment and freelancers retain a lot more flexibility than full-time employees working for a single employer. The freelancers are often still working with others, it's just for a specific project and with arm's length management etc.

Now, please consider that there is usually no way for someone in that position to demonstrate the kind of direct value contribution that is the basis for your arguments to clients that much higher rates are justified. If nothing else, it may be impossible to properly separate the value of contributions from different contractors working on the same project.

Moreover, it's all very well arguing that your contribution has raised £X for the client (for some impressively large X) and so you are worth a significant chunk of that £X in fees, but this relies on the fact that the client can't buy a contribution of equal worth to them for a lower price elsewhere. There are numerous highly skilled freelancers who by their nature are always looking for the next job, and unless some sort of mass unionisation happens or you're talking about an extremely specific niche where literally only a tiny number of consultants could do the job at all, you simply aren't going to be competitive at 10x the going rate. Sure, maybe you're worth it, but that still doesn't help if any of 20 other people with a similar skill set is willing to do the job to a similar standard but for only 2x the going rate.

So while I have no objection to pointing out that developing valuable skills and then pitching yourself as a consultant in a certain field can be extremely lucrative relative to being a freelance code monkey, I do think it's misleading at best to suggest that all, or even most, freelance software developers can just put their rates up rapidly and change themselves into consultants in the way that worked for you guys (and to some extent for me, I suppose). The strategy doesn't scale to the freelance software development industry as a whole, and in many cases it would never work if individuals tried to do it alone without taking the relevant part of their profession along with them en masse. Even if it did, it would probably mean doing a very different job and potentially giving up some of the benefits or choices that motivate many people to turn to freelancing in the first place.
18 U.S.C. § 873

Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

---

No, it's not blackmail and no legal action will be taken. The ability of some reddit users to be completely blind to either facts or any kind of realistic analysis continues to amaze me.
I don't have enough information to say, but faster iteration is a solid bet. Plus better visibility into technical feasibility and cost, which leads to doing technical daring things as soon as they become possible. This becomes an unfair advantage fast for the tech startups, as the MBA crowd gets their tech bearings mostly from monthly magazines which are years beyond the state of the art. This means they only do tech things once they are common practice, so they'll never have a tech advantage.

As an engineer, I'm biased, of course, but this looks to me like: tech founders have to learn some biz, marketing and management skills, which is feasible, to be able to judge business opportunities and execute on them. The MBA crowd already knows how to do this, but they need to learn tech skills, in order to judge tech opportunities and execute on them, which is harder for them.

Edited for spelling.
I used to think that the Peace Nobel Prize was a way to honor someone who did something to advance peace. Then Al Gore got the prize for nothing related to war or peace, then Obama got the prize and now the EU. What a joke.
How JavaScript object helps in avoiding method duplication
Good find! But I don't mind renaming it to 'tripping-ninja' if needed to be honest ;)
Hi HN,

I posted last week about Docverter, my plain text to rich text conversion tool. It's actually ready for people to start using now. I'll be here all day to answer questions.

Edit to add: I added docverter PDF conversions to my blog last night and it took all of an hour. Check out the Download PDF link toward the bottom here: http://bugsplat.info/2012-08-11-task-oriented-dotfiles.html

Code is here: https://github.com/peterkeen/bugsplat.rb/blob/master/app.rb#...
Unfortunately I do not find the link, but there was the proposal to build (at least partially) evacuated tunnels between cities. This would reduce air drag and therefore energy consumed, particularly at high speeds. ( This is of course 1950 SF tech.)
Internet drama that's designed to drive hits to two social media sites and is devoid of any technical discussion - the reality television of the Internet.

Wish I could downvote.
Weird, worked for me last night. Tested on Chrome/Win7.
Perhaps 'intriguing' is the better term.

I'd implore everyone to spend a few rainy weekends trudging through Mandelbrot's 'The Fractal Geometry of Nature'[1] and Wolfram's 'A New Kind of Science'[2]. Both are rather terse, but I found both added a whole new depth of analogy in the way I see the Universe(s).

It's easy to be dismissive of Stephen Wolfram for his general asshat'ery and Benoit isn't around to champion his notions in the broader sense. But if we are to take reductivism to it's extreme, it's worth exploring emergent patterns with a bit more wonderment.

[1] http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Fractal_Geometry_of_...

[2] http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html
I wish more people would contribute information on using Flask at a larger scale. Everyone and their brother has written a basic tutorial outlining how to get up and running with Flask. This is a GREAT post and I do not want to demean it ... however I think that a lot of this can be gleaned from following along with the docs and experimenting with Flask in general.

I'd really love to see/hear some stories of others using Flask at a slightly larger scale. For example ... did your startup build their REST API in Flask? Sure, people say it's possible and outline a basic hello-world style REST app ... but in my experience it became a pain in the ass very quick. Primarily because no structure is enforced.

After being a Python dev for a long time, building quite a few big Django apps and a handful of tiny Flask apps I have finally jumped ship to Rails. I spent a week experimenting with various Pythonic combinations. Ultimately I had to ask myself ... "Why am I doing this? What the hell am I wasting my time with this lightweight framework?" I've built my current REST API in Rails and would not have it any other way. It's been tremendously efficient and performs great on my little Linode in London + PostgreSQL.
Test product ideas, before you waste time and money
Heya,

Pretty cool that you got to see the consequences of that approach from both sides of the table.
The 'flag' link would have a similar effect to a downvote.
How to Make You the Best Part of Your Startup
http://www.fzt.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Scholz/Airport2030/Airpor... reckons a ~10% efficiency increase, but the wing is twice as heavy!
Service I created for anyone in Atlanta, GA that uses MARTA regularly
Cloud Rap: World's Fastest Rapper on Windows Azure Cloud [bad advertising]
Apple has good docs on it[1]. I find the easiest solution is to create a custom cell nib and style that. If I need multiple custom cells I tend to do it in code. This was something I always found difficult to do well but over the years it's improved a lot (especially with the appearance API in iOS 5).

[1] http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UserEx...
Isn't Chitika the largely discredited company that basically invented nonsensical stats a few months ago?
It's funny, when I read or hear programmers arguing about where to put braces, whether to use tabs or spaces, and whether semicolons are good or bad, I've occasionally been depressed by the kind of petty debates we in software seem to enjoy. But this is a reminder that
it's not just programmers, it's humans!

(Not to say that this is really a petty issue, I found the OP interesting enough, but it's about as important as spaces and tabs in the large domain of writing in general)
I hope you're right!

My startup is Xavy (xavy.com), it's a video discovery & distribution platform for connecting professionals and conference organisers.

Idea is to provide free/very cheap access to world-class conference content (of which millions of hours exist!) and help generate leads for upcoming events through utilising that content - all in one place, organiser-neutral, searchable/filterable by type of content.

(I have a conferences background, so I know the space).

Sign up on the landing page and I'll ping you once the MVP is up and running, which I'm aiming to be Monday morning.

Cheers!
I have always been fascinated with cellular automata. I think they serve a really good purpose in being a "fun" way to approach complexity and it's consequences and I spent more than a few hours playing with game of life programs especially when I was younger.

But I am still curious as to who has the time to engineer with them? Is it just "hobbyists" or do some academics derive useful work out from pursuing them?
Thanks Charlie! We also offer a pretty nice price comparison chart that breaks down AWS's pricing: https://www.digitalocean.com/price-comparison-chart
Whoever asks questions or needs an opinnion(woman or man) must understand that first:
before you begin to do so, you took a responsibility to accept what ever is being said, because you don't know the other end whos anwsering. let me ......... 1nce more....
!!!!!you don't know!!!!! there are too many variables

Woman or men, what ever.... there are always 2 sides of the story

sexism = vicious circle
Great comment, basically a restatement of Christopher Alexander's philosophy of architecture, as applied to software. This to me is where top-down thinking like Design Patterns sometimes go wrong; The GOF and related literature never really emphasized or adopted at a fundamental level, Alexander's most essential insight: the discovery of patterns should be driven from the bottom up, from the essential goal of expressing how human beings live in buildings (software).

I like and use patterns, but rarely according to 'textbook' implementations, and I always felt that the patterns literature never went deep enough into Alexander's fundamental principles, which I think you've paraphrased so well here.

Less friction among humans is the entire point of software engineering.

Should be on a banner over every CS department and software publishing house in the world.
For someone that cares so much about two-spacing I'd assume he'd also set up his HTML/CSS so that it actually preserves his two spaces after a period by some insertion of an HTML entity. As it stands now, if you View Source he definitely uses two spaces after a period but when outputted to the browser it's only one because the white-space is coalesced together by the rendering engine.
Worthless pedantry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion

http://extortion.uslegal.com/
This mostly seems to indicate that the Stored Communications Act is out of date. Unfortunately it is not likely to improve if the current Congress goes mucking around with it.
They sent me a free razor when I turned 18 and they have been charging me ridiculously high prices for the blades ever since.
You mean where's the evidence that evidence based medicine works?

I could produce some evidence but I'm afraid that then you'd ask me where's the evidence that my evidence actually supports the hypothesis that evidence based medicine actually helps.
Why Boolean Search is Such a Big Deal in Recruiting
I use two spacing simply because that is what I was taught in school. After having it drummed into my head for the better part of 10 years, I'm never going to change for anyone.
What an absurd thing to spend time debating. For anyone else that thought this was going to be about working spaces, it's actually about why double-spacing after a period is superior. The arguments amount to "because I like it" and "because it lets me do end-of-sentence regexes in vim without catching things like 'Mr.' and 'Etc.'".
Apache releases Lucene Core 4.0 and Solr 4.0
He was probably a better negotiator. And citing laws that say you should be paid a certain amount, instead of showing her value to the company, is not a good tactic for getting a raise.
This is quote possibly the most beautiful blog I have ever seen.

That said, it's a stupid argument. If you want to two-space, fine, but be aware that most people believe and understand you're living in the typographic stone age alongside people who indent their paragraphs and use Whitesmiths.

Two-spacing is a result of monospace typewriters, which couldn't provide the "space and a half" spacing that traditional typesetting put between sentences, however these days most of the people I see doing two-spacing are in their forties or older, and probably used a typewriter before they used a computer.

Even when using a monospace font, I prefer single spacing. Why? It's easier to be consistent. If I forget to two space, or have a typo and miss a two-space, short of creating a really nasty regex I'm not going to be able to find it.
10/2 article on dearth of women in the tech industry. It mentions a key point, in its first paragraph copied below. I agree (and I'm a woman).

It’s an important question: why are there so few women working in the IT and telecoms sector? It might be one of the rare times that The Guardian has actually asked an interesting question in fact. The answer is, I’m afraid, that on average men and women are different.
Interesting that he uses only one space after each of his colons.
And appearing on HN due to self-promotion by the author.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jessicaSFNY
It's a very, very simplistic view of dental health. There's much more to it than what comes into contact with your teeth.
Would you please elaborate what they are doing and why it is intriguing?
Super nice...
As a developer only have surface level interaction with Android, this looks like a great tool to get started.
I also read the Wikipedia article on blackmail, but I then proceeded to read a bunch of other articles on the web as well. The purported blackmail act was a demand that /r/CreepShots be closed or else information about the moderator would be made available. From what I've read, blackmail doesn't only have to be about money- it can be anything of worth or value, and one could argue this has worth.

I'm on the side of Gawker and the admins, but I'm still interested in anything illegal that might have happened.
How do you know the dentist pulled it out of thin air? A dentist would seem to have a decent likelihood of being familiar with the science.
People weren't using the social web before the likes of Facebook and MySpace. You, me and the rest of HN were. But everyone else? No, they were not on forums. Being social on the internet and the web was the purview of geeks. Friendster, MySpace and Facebook changed that.
I tried to comment on the original blog post in both FireFox and Chrome and it just said "Comment not sent!".

Anyone else?

Might this code be shutting out legitimate users? (Apart from the fact that if you have JS turned off you can't comment, that is.)
WikiLeaks Implements Paywall, Anonymous Does Not Approve
What he wrote was a primer.. describing the basics of what sexism is.. in fact in his terminology portion he pretty much breaks down what any gender equality book would break down, and he does so in a very concise manor. Also you MUST address rape culture when addressing sexism. Being dismissive of it is what leads to sexism.

Reminds me of that kixeye manager "Let me tell you, it's ok to make jokes about slavery because that's over."
Hacker Academies are popping up like weeds, and now it's just getting silly.
Maybe for some games, but for others it's nice to see some elements of great story-telling.

Of course, you still want to have good game mechanics, interactivity, graphics and fun, but the medium has evolved to the point where you can tell a good story.
After reading this I still don't understand why he uses two-space.

He sets up some arguments against two-space and counters them, but I still don't see what the point of two-space (or n-space). From the post all I can gleam is 1) it looks better in his opinion, 2) Vim sentence selection. Neither of which are convincing arguments to me I'm afraid...
You give up all rights to your code after you contribute it. AFAIK if you give up all rights to your code, they could potentially change the project license without asking the copyright holders. IANAL.
> To recap, the arguments for single-spacing are: 1. Two-spacing is ugly in proportional fonts. [..] Number 3 is false, because two-spacing gives you two advantages over one-spacing: It looks better in your editor.

I beg to differ. I find that two-spacing feels wrong even in monospace. And even code is not write-only, so it's a stab in my eye every time I 'develop'.

Also, since both HTML and markdown use single-newline chars as word - not paragraph - delimiters, the semantic argument doesn't hold because I'll counter it with [0].

[0] http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/
Apple Agrees To License Iconic Swiss Federal Railways’ Clock Design
The (American?) usage where colons end sentences (two following spaces, then a capital letter) is so very very wrong.
FTA:

> People were apparently surprised by me saying that copyrights had problems too. I don't understand why people were that surprised, but I understand even less why people then thought that "copyrights have problems" would imply "copyright protection should be abolished". The second doesn't follow at all.

> Quite frankly, there are a lot of f*cking morons on the internet.

I have to admit that I think pretty much the same thing whenever I read discussions about patent/copyright law on the Internet.
Turtle gargle pissing
Interesting. Why do the bots run with JS turned off?
Maybe I'm missing the point of this entire thread and don't truly grasp the argument for EBM vs. correlation, but can someone explain why a statistically significant correlation for this kind of efficacy is not evidence in and of itself?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457500...
Is there some webservice for PhoneGap like applications? One where you just paste your html and get back an android app? Thats the way I would like to develop.
I bet this guy is a hoot at the pub......fucking hell, get a life!
Sounds like most of those would be solved by putting it up on github so you'd git clone the bash repo then execute it.
The Spatial History Project
The Degradation of Java Developers
The folks behind Discovr Music say they're at 77% iOS 6 adoption: http://discovr.info/2012/10/discovr-ios-6-adoption-tops-77-i...
I've never done any mobile application development but I was considering building something for my nexus. This will likely come in handy.